Approach
Integrate climate change into fire planning and response
Tactics
- Model which places are susceptible to high smoke
- and get that message out to developers
- tourists
- etc.
- Inform people in advance of and during burn events—more effectively (both for prescribed burns and wildfire); improve understanding for prescribed burn necessity. Improve messaging regarding natural fire cycles.
- Minimize impacts to tourism
Citation
Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.,